Conference “Sustainable architecture and contemporary Argentine visions”. Auditorium Instituto Guimarães Rosa, Embassy of Brazil | April 29, 2024

On Monday 29 April 2024 at 10.00, at the Instituto Guimarães Rosa Auditorium, Embassy of Brazil, a conference dedicated to the exhibition “América Latina, vivendo na contemporaneidade. Visões de arquitetura sustentável / vivir en la contemporaneidad. Visiones de arquitectura sostenible", curated by architect Paola Pisanelli Nero.

The conference aims to be an opportunity to explore the importance of the sustainable contribution of contemporary architecture in Latin America which maintains, experiments and uses natural materials, revealing a history and an ancestral technical culture that is still alive. Architect Pisanelli Nero will illustrate her research, which includes the participation of 45 Latin American studios with 90 projects and built works. 3 projects will then be explored in depth, thanks to the participation of 3 Argentine architecture firms: Barrionuevo Villanueva Arquitectos, MGHS Oficina de Arquitectura and APS – Pablo Senmartin.

After the conference, the curator of the exhibition and the architects present will lead a guided tour of the multimedia and immersive exhibition set up in the adjacent spaces of the Candido Portinari Gallery.

The exhibition “América Latina, vivendo na contemporaneidade. Visões de arquitetura sustentável / vivir en la contemporaneidad. Visiones de arquitectura sostenible” is created by IILA – Italian-Latin American International Organization, in collaboration with the Embassy of Brazil in Italy and with the contribution of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (DGCS/MAECI) and CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Plan

Part 1

10.00 - 10.30 am

• Institutional greetings

• Presentation of the exhibition by Paola Pisanelli Nero.

• Presentation by Paola Pisanelli Nero of the participating architects: Barrionuevo Villanueva Arquitectos /MGHS Oficina de Arquitectura/ APS Pablo Senmartin (Argentina)

Part 2

11.00 am - 12.30 pm

Exhibition of the projects, curated by each participating studio.

• BARRIONUEVO VILLANUEVA ARQUITECTOS arch. NICOLAS BARRIONUEVO – “Paths for sustainable architecture”

• MGHS OFICINA DE ARQUITECTURA arch. JOAN MARANTZ – “Points and lines over Buenos Aires”

• APS PABLO SENMARTIN – “Sustainable architecture, space and time”

Part 3

Candido Portinari Gallery, Embassy of Brazil, Piazza Navona 10

Guided tour of the exhibition with participating groups, curated by the curator and the architects present